Serving Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Hillsborough and Pittsboro
umall

Features

Little gardens beneath our feet

Cheerful faces of speedwells are a sure sign of spring. Photo by Ken Moore Signaling spring’s arrival, those blue speedwells are flowering now in many yards throughout our neighborhoods. You may even spot patches of blue in the medians as you drive around our towns on Fordham Boulevard. Full Story »
• Mar 19, 2010 • Posted in: Features, Flora • 0 Comments

Women’s art at heart of fundraising success

Good ideas, like art and wine, improve with time. Full Story »
• Feb 25, 2010 • Posted in: Community, Features • 0 Comments

For art’s sake

Calm usually does not describe an artist at his or her first solo exhibit. Full Story »
• Feb 18, 2010 • Posted in: Community, Features • 0 Comments

Carrboro midwife offers an alternative

New Carrboro midwifery practice opens Full Story »
• Feb 4, 2010 • Posted in: Community, Features • 5 Comments

Pride, no prejudice, Orange County-style

RECENTLY . . . By Valarie Schwartz Pauli Murray didn’t spend much time in Orange County. She visited the plantation house on Smith Level Road named after … Full Story »
• Jan 7, 2010 • Posted in: Features • 0 Comments

Perry Deane Young on the‘peculiar obscenity’ of war

By Taylor Sisk, Staff Writer Old men lust after war; young men court it. It’s the same impulse born of opposite origins – that of those … Full Story »
• Oct 24, 2009 • Posted in: Features • 2 Comments

A taste of Carrboro in Africa

By Beth Mechum, Staff Writer Carrboro and Sakina are similar, and very different. Sakina is a small village on the outskirts of Arusha, Tanzania. Carrboro is … Full Story »
• Oct 2, 2009 • Posted in: Community, Features • 0 Comments

Recently: Getting lost in the shuffle

By Valarie Schwartz This story needs to be heard — really — I wish you could hear this story. As I climbed the steep steps to … Full Story »
• Apr 16, 2009 • Posted in: Features, Recently • 0 Comments

Rogers-Eubanks history in focus

By Taylor Sisk Staff Writer What began as an effort to document the effects of 35 years of a landfill on the Rogers-Eubanks community has grown into … Full Story »
• Mar 19, 2009 • Posted in: Features • 1 Comment

McFee honored for writing about Appalachian South

UNC creative writing professor and poet Michael McFee has won the 2009 James Still Award for Writing About the Appalachian South. The Fellowship of Southern Writers … Full Story »
• Feb 19, 2009 • Posted in: Features • 0 Comments

Chapel Hill native an ‘Idol’ finalist

Update: Results — Anoop Desai was not one of the top three contestants voted in from Tuesday night’s performances, but could still make the top … Full Story »
• Feb 19, 2009 • Posted in: Features • 1 Comment

Professor’s book about Siler City soccer team chosen for UNC summer reading program

By Jasmina Nogo Staff Writer “I was surprised and shocked when I received the phone call,” said Paul Cuadros, an assistant professor at the UNC School of … Full Story »
• Feb 12, 2009 • Posted in: Features, University • 0 Comments

Changing times for coffee achievers

By Margot C. Lester Staff Writer At the end of last month, global coffee conglomerate Starbucks announced it was cutting 6,700 employees, closing stores and slowing expansion … Full Story »
• Feb 12, 2009 • Posted in: Features • 1 Comment

A man in motion now at rest

By Kirk Ross and Margot C. Lester Staff Writers Author, newspaper editor and self-proclaimed “notorious hometown ne’er do well” Roland Giduz was remembered fondly by friends and … Full Story »
• Feb 5, 2009 • Posted in: Features, Top Story • Tags: , • 0 Comments

Re-examining religion: ‘Do good. be nice. have fun’

BY Vicky Dickson Staff Writer Writing fiction is as close to being God as you can get.” You might not expect to hear those words uttered by a … Full Story »
• Feb 3, 2009 • Posted in: Features, Mill • 0 Comments